Friday, June 12, 2020

Kill the Messenger - Detail (1987, Suede Brain)

Yet another blind purchase that proved to be a far different animal than what I anticipated.  There's virtually not a "pop" lick to be located on Kill The Messenger's lone and very unremarked about Detail LP.  In fact, I'm not even sure where this quartet hailed from, but the locale of their record label, Suede Brain out of San Fran might be a good bet.  Despite an engineering credit from the commercially viable Matt Wallace KtM were largely defiant of anything accessible, given Detail's unremitting art-damaged post-punk leanings.  Tearing a page or three from the likes of Eyeless in Gaza, Savage Republic, Deception Bay, and occasionally Bauhaus, this quartet not only posed a noir, ominous stance, but specialized in dissonant sonic affectations aplenty, yielding an album that's outright creepy in spots.  Though I can't accurately identify the drummer in the album credits, KtM emanate oodles of tribal, percussive angles, with unabashed employment of tom-toms.  And if you crave music with texture, there's no deficiency of that here.  If Kill's whole shtick impresses you as a little foreboding let it be known that there are just enough guardrails within Detail to cling to, so long as you're willing invest a few spins.

01. one night
02. this is america
03. boy anymore
04. i don't know
05. bhopal
06. whisper
07. i want to come back
08. elimate coercion/sucked down the tunnel
09. dna

hear

3 comments:

Harry Zwecklos said...

ZIPPYSHARE IS HERE OUT OF ORDER OR OTHER ALTERNATIVE ???

Harry Zwecklos said...

ZIPPYSHARE IS HERE OUT OF ORDER OR OTHER ALTERNATIVE ???

Paul said...

As a Faith No More fan, seeing the combination of Matt Wallace on the credits and San Francisco-post punk makes a bit of sense here.